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[Tsakara]

 [SPOILER]Path of the Beast

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

A legend on wtf the colored lines mean would help.

[Transparent Blue]

The collapsing building is the Woolworth Building, not the Empire State Building. The party is on Broadway near 401 (the building that the SOL's head bounces off). Not sure whether you accounted for these (the pics were taking ages to load so I stopped them) but they didn't seem to be in your descriptions so:

1. The monster must've passed through or near the Time Warner Building (Beth's place), it didn't topple over by itself.

2. The bridge at the end is Greyshot.

3. The corner of W 58th Street and 7th Avenue is where the Hansom Cab is seen.

[Tsakara]

ID lines
red is the monster
green is the group on ground
yellow is the group in the tunnels
blue is the statue's head in the first pic and group on the choppers in the second
pink is the army

well like I said, I don't really know my way around NYC, I did what I could with google Earth, stock images and the trailers.

I couldn't find the time warner building, but I'd assumed if the monster had been near the empire state building then it would have had to pass through mid-town at some point.

I dunno though, the building that collapses looks an awful lot like th empire state building, especially the lights on it:


compare to pic of flying head.
It sure looks like the empire state building

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Lit up wrong.



Watch the trailer again.

[WartyHogger]

Another reason why im behind the more then one monster theory.

[Tsakara]

I'm going to have to start all over now to take that into account.

[Southside]

Nice scribbles.

[Transparent Blue]

Whoops, I meant the Time Warner Center. 10 Columbus Circle.

[rose]

Yeah, that isn't the Empire State Building. Just FYI, the Empire State Building is massive. I know that you know that, but if you haven't been to New York City, you may not understand how much bigger it is than any other building in the city (now).

I would've been shocked if they showed a monster pulling that down and it hadn't been mentioned in any thread here already.

I think this is a great idea and a fun project.

[Sanfam]

This is a fantastic start. Living relatively close to NYC myself and having visited on a fairly regular basis, I have no doubt in my mind that one monster could have done this. The people, maybe not quite as capable, but it seems like some shortcuts were taken and they were under the influence of a pretty big adrenaline rush.

What I suspect would be a good next step would be for us to compile a list of known locations and estimated times (in 24 hour format) at which either the characters, the monster, or critical events were to be found.

For example, "0xxx: Group entered subway (X Train) at Y street station" "0xxx: Group passes x building." "0xxx: Monster spotted fighting army at cross streets x and y." If this is acceptable, then I strongly suggest that we stick to this standard as best possible for the most effective organization.

From this, we can work towards more precise maps and more likely routes. No doubt exists in my mind that we'll have a number of clouds--that is, an area in which we do not know where the monster was or truly could have been, but can make a rough guess as to its approximate location--but I think we can get a fairly good map done in a short time.

[Caros]

Heh.

[Sanfam]

one remark: What evidence do we have that it didn't attack other bridges before/after the run-in we encountered and it just so happened that it was the biggest event to happen at that particular time? (This is a serious question) We know that the military rolled in armor and infantry but this does not necessarily mean they continued receiving reinforcements care of said bridges. Keep in mind that the Midtown Tunnel could certainly support the passage of light armor and infantry support vehicles.

[OliMango]

Nice work on this Tsa. It's kind of confusing, but I can see what you're trying to do.

[carlosos]

Could this be the beginning of a MGP guidetour for NYC?